Classification key indicating the type of material movement (for example, goods receipt, goods issue, physical stock transfer).
The movement type enables the system to find predefined posting rules determining how the accounts of the financial accounting system (stock and consumption accounts) are to be posted and how the stock fields in the material master record are to be updated.
Classification key used in the Warehouse Management system to describe a stock movement within a warehouse complex (warehouse number).
Classification of a movement category.
By way of an example, the movement category 'admission' can have the movement types